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Additional Resources
National Collaboration for Youth
http://www.nydic.org/
The National Collaboration for Youth is a one-stop website for youth workers with interest in any and all of the following areas: funding, programming, research, policy, job and training opportunities. NYDIC also provides current news to the youth development field and has one of the largest online libraries, providing practice-related information at low-cost or no cost. NYDIC provides constant opportunities for practitioners to share knowledge and experience, enabling them to build the best practice in the field of youth development.
OJJDP Assessing Community Gang Problems Implimentation Manual
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The implementation manual, Planning for Implementation, provides a guide to development of an implementation plan. It provides a process for developing a plan to implement the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Comprehensive Gang Model, including worksheets that facilitate that process. It also describes the work of an Intervention Team, including street outreach workers’ roles. The manual also offers examples of individual agencies’ activities and core criteria for each of the Model’s five strategies. For convenience, individual chapters or the entire document can be opened.
OJJDP Assessing Community Gang Problems Assessment Guide
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The assessment guide, A Guide to Assessing Your Community’s Youth Gang Problem, provides a blueprint for conducting an in-depth assessment of the gang problem in the community and guidance for the assessment process. It describes the data variables, sources of data, and data-collection instruments. It also provides suggestions on how to organize and analyze the data and guidelines for preparation of an Assessment Report that will present the results of the data-collection effort, as well as an analysis of the data and key findings regarding the community’s gang problem. For convenience, individual chapters or the entire document can be opened.
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